May 24th 2024

RINGLETS releases new single & announce limited edition 7" | Check out NZ's Best Kept Secret

Tāmaki-based enigmatic post-punk quartet Ringlets unveil their latest single, ‘New Life,’ available digitally today, Listen HERE. And, available for pre-order on limited edition 7” via Leather Jacket Records and Flying Nun Records — out on Friday, June 7th. Preorder HERE.

Their first release in just over a year, ‘New Life’ is a boisterous, angular anthem of modern Kiwi post-punk, boldly merging the band’s undoubtedly New Wave influences with a crisp professionalism and oft-wry lyrical delivery courtesy of laissez-faire vocalist Leith Towers.

LANKUM 'Live in Dublin' album coming, new single here now | Foot Tap Along to this Gem

Rough Trade Records are excited to announce the release of ‘Live in Dublin’ by Lankum.  Recorded across three sold out nights at Dublin’s Vicar Street, the album features Lankum performing songs from across their catalogue including ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’, which up until now has never been officially released. Now available as an expanded digital album with three extra tracks. The vinyl edition of ‘Live in Dublin’ will be released on both black and limited gold coloured vinyl. Listen to ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’ from the album now.

PEGGY GOU releases new single | Listen to 'Lobster Telephone'

Artist, producer, DJ and cultural trailblazer Peggy Gou has released a new single ‘Lobster Telephone‘. Taken from her long-awaited debut album I Hear You. ‘Lobster Telephone’ is a perfect distillation of the kind of balmy, technicolour house music that Gou is globally renowned for, evoking career-defining earlier Peggy Gou releases such as ‘Starry Night‘ and ‘It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)‘. The song – Gou’s personal favourite from the album – is named after the Salvador Dali sculpture and sees her reciting a string of surreal lyrics in Korean to then admit, “I know you don’t understand this / But it doesn’t matter / It’s all the same / We’re all the same.”. 

EARTH TONGUE releases new single | Check out the video for ‘Out Of This Hell’

In the midst of a 50-plus date tour across the EU and UK, Aotearoa fuzz-rock duo Earth Tongue take a breath to release their third album single, ‘Out Of This Hell,’ off their highly anticipated new release, Great Haunting, set to drop on Friday, June 14, 2024, via In The Red Records.

NZ's LOLA shares new live performance video | Check out this great talent

In the spirit of NZ Music Month electro-dark-pop vocalist/producer Lola, shares a performance video of her latest track ‘Portal’. The single was initially released early April from this emerging Tāmaki Makaurau based artist and embraced by alternative radio across the motu with bFMs breakfast host Rachel Ashby gushed “there is a first impression, then there so much depth to what’s being created, it’s a very well realised world.”

CASSANDRA JENKINS releases new song | Listen to ‘Delphinium Blue’

Like the night sky itself, the world of My Light, My Destroyer is always expanding. Cassandra Jenkins’ third full-length, out July 12th via Dead Oceans, cracks open the promise of reaching the edge of the new, with a wider sonic palette than ever before—encompassing guitar-driven indie rock, new age, sophistipop, and jazz. After having recently released her stunningly lush first single, ‘Only One,’ with an accompanying video, today, Cassandra releases the cavernous new age pop track ‘Delphinium Blue,‘ along with a video which Cassandra also directed.

CUMGIRL8 share new song + debut LP due later this year |Check out some "...scuzzy dance-punk studded with horny prose"

Standalone single ‘quite like love’ by Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 arrives following of a string of recent US headline shows and support dates with L7 and Bratmobile. cumgirl8 further proves their infectious nature with this new track, a throbbing, late night overture to twisted romance. With an unsettling, industrial air, here, the band touch close to Cabaret Voltaire in the style of “gothic pop and scuzzy dance-punk studded with horny prose” [Pitchfork].

MRCY release debut project, & new song | Have a listen to ‘California’

MRCY have today shared their debut project, VOLUME 1, which is available now on Dead Oceans. Featuring brand new single ‘California’. “Triumphant and dynamic…MRCY are quickly landing themselves on every music enthusiast’s radar” - Clash

BIZHIKI announces new album & share new single | Check out traditional powwow singing

Unbound, the new album by Bizhiki out July 19th via Jagjaguwar, opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition that’s been heard in Northern Wisconsin river country for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing and a contemporary musical palette. Today, Bizhiki shares the lead single ‘Gigawaabamin (Come Through) (feat. Mike Sullivan).’ A made-in-Wisconsin collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey Sr., and multi-instrumentalist S. Carey (Bon Iver), Unbound sees the powwow style entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming accented with electronic samples and beats.

MALICE K announces debut album & shares new song | Check out 'The Old House'

Malice K has announced his debut album, AVANTI, out 24th August via Jagjaguwar.  In addition, Malice K has shared new single and video ‘The Old House’. Earlier this year Malice K released AVANTI’s first single ‘Radio’ in the same week he graced the cover of NME. The interview highlighted his compelling, honest songwriting and called him “a shapeshifter”, but while he isn’t pinned by one genre, he’s decisive and intense, more concerned with carving his own path, and building his own world, rather than finding ways to fit into what already exists.

CRACK CLOUD announce new album & share new song | Have a listen to 'Blue Kite'

Jagjaguwar are thrilled to announce the arrival of Canadian art punks Crack Cloud. The band are  announcing their new album, Red Mile, out July 26th, and share its captivating lead single/video, ‘Blue Kite‘. Although the band — now composed of Zach Choy, Aleem Khan, Bryce Cloghesy, Will Choy, Emma Acs, Eve Adams and Nathaniel Philips — has taken on many forms over the years, they now re-emerge as a lean, focused rock outfit, here joined by creative director Aidan Pontarini. Red Mile is their most mature and vital work yet.

ROE KAPARA rails against the rat race on new song |Listen to 'Life In America'

St. Louis-born, Los Angeles-based artist Roe Kapara has shared his new single, ‘Life In America,’ a bleak appraisal of American corporate culture condemning its die-at-your-desk mentality. Amidst its eerie acoustic melody, Kapara utilizes his cutting imagery to articulate the attitudes of a generation of clear-eyed disaffected youth. 

Sleep Theory share behind the scenes look at Gone or Staying Video - Check it Out!

The story-driven video perfectly captures the song’s melancholy subject matter — holding on to a bad relationship when you really should just let go and burn it all to the ground, quite literally — and is bathed in beautiful blue tones. “‘Gone or Staying’ is a special song to us as a band. In this video, we wanted to capture the tension between a couple’s relationship as it comes to an end, and the grieving process of letting go of what once was,” the band shares. “Cullen can be seen throughout the video walking through what once was, and eventually burning his past to move on.” The band’s Paper Hearts EP is out now via the Epitaph Records. Get the EP, which has been streamed over 87 million times, here.